blue jay dream

I helped a blue jay in the first good dream I've had in a long time

The Trouble with Harry

Today’s edition of Literary Lapses concerns a children’s canine classic. I was walking our hound in the woods the other day when we met a lady walking her dog. It was low, white with black spots and bore a remarkable resemblance to a famous dog I assumed everyone knew. I asked her, “Have you read Harry the Dirty Dog?” Umm, let’s just say this is a sentence you need to be very careful delivering. Know your audience.

El Gorila Blanco

I don’t know if I mentioned what happened after I wrote Walt Amherst is Awake. That novel features a white gorilla named White Pongo who actually stars in a 1945 movie. I decided to revive his career and featured him in a few more books since then. Then I saw an ad for the Rock’s hit new movie Rampage which features a white gorilla blowing up everything in sight. Yin and Yang. In my book, the gorilla wears a Captain cap and blue uniform and is crossing the bay in his little sailboat.

warm weather reads

I just finished reading 2 great books: Charles Wright's Sestets collection and a biography of Criswell.

marble wonders

Walking down Broadway, old movie palaces and unbelievable heights carved from marble.

Los Angeles

Star and a Car

My first star sighting, spotting Diane Keaton on the overpass!